It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.
When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn’t expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I’ve spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I’ve seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.
I’ve gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I’ll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy’s source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.
Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don’t see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.
The information contained in past posts and comments on Reddit is immense. Usually, the easiest way for me to find advice is a Google search that includes “Reddit” in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for
I was looking for support for a network issue and google returned me to several Reddit posts. Everyone of them was deleted or the sub was private. It’s usefulness it’s diminishing real quick.
If the sub is private, you can add “cache:” to the very beginning of the URL. Before the https. That will grab a cached version of before it went private, very helpful. Not sure if it works for deleted stuff tho.
That’s a game changer. I had no idea about that.
That’s great to know… Ty.
as a software dev this also make me sad, but I hope chatgpt can fill that gap left by reddit
ChatGPT was probably trained on that data. ChatGPT remembers… like an elephant.
As someone who works in IT, this is very unfortunate. While I don’t agree with what Reddit is doing, I don’t think we should scorch the site. Its an immense archive of information that can be referenced.
It a dilemma isn’t it. If you had a business partner that decided to change the terms of the relationship so that you felt you had to leave would you let them keep the intellectual property to allow them still to make money from whilst you had nothing?
I thought about it long and hard and decided that I would take all my information as an archive and remove it from reddit. Once we have an alternative I will be more than happy to upload it to another resource.
Heck, Google usually includes Reddit results in general searches anyway, conveniently grouped together near the top of the results. We can only hope they start doing the same for Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general).
on duckduckgo I use
site:reddit.comand the results will only include links to reddit, I find it better than Reddit’s search (duh)
I was there for the great Digg to Reddit migration and now the great Reddit to Lemmy migration.
They can destroy our aggregators but they’ll never be able to destroy our community. 🤌
Fuckin well put, man. 🫘
Lemmy could be the solution we needed all along. No company can take it away - if the community remains the platform does too.
I mean, nothing is forever.
As cheesy as that sounds, it’s especially true in tech.
Someone can/will come along and fuck up Lemmy too eventually, probably.
Gonna take like 15 years though so for now, it is the place to be.
Just a reminder that Lemmy is intended to not be addictive. Go out and enjoy your life. Lemmy will be here when you’re pooping or when you have downtime, you don’t need to be glued to it
Messaging from the pooper.
I feel so included. :)
But I’m about to travel and will not poop for 3 days at least /s
I read your comment while eating freezie instead of pooping
Not sure “Starship Troopers” is the best inspirational message for Fediverse users. I mean, the entire franchise is really about the effects of fascism and indoctrination, the humans-versus-aliens combat is just a delightful bonus.
Whether it’s Lemmy, Kbin, or something that’s yet to be made - I feel the fediverse is here to stay. Genuinely revolutionary step away from centralized services like reddit.
The paradigm of having a home base instance and being able to venture out into the fediverse is just incredible. There’s a sense of community and comraderie that was never present on reddit. And yet there’s a breadth of users and perspectives that you could never find on smaller internet forums or platforms.
Couldn’t agree more, I really believe that federated self hosted sites have the potential to supercede the centralized internet. The fundamental experience is superior, and people will eventually begin to realize that.
Imagine an internet where nobody is trying to sell you something. Or worse, sell you (to advertisers). What a concept.
All I’ve been seeing is beans 😞
bean the change you wanna see
a revolution starts with a single bean
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Can someone explain the bean trend, sorry getting old bit of a has bean you could say …
Essentially someone posted a photo of some beans and said Lemmy will upvote anything, even just beans.
…we did.
I’m a simple man. I see beans; I upvote.
Yup. Beans and poop. Quite frankly I’m not interested in either of those topics!
You should expand your horizons! Beans just come in so many variants. You got baked beans, half baked beans, twice baked beans (and so on), Lima beans, string beans, chili beans, things that look like beans but aren’t (looking at you, peanuts are a legume), and the list goes on!
I guess I have a semi related question. It seems that canned baked beans are a staple for people in the UK. They even have it on toast of all things. Do canned baked beans taste different in the UK than they do in the US or are they the same? I’m in the US and I think they taste disgusting, but I wonder if they have a different flavor in the UK.
Basically yes they’re very different. I saw a discussion earlier about which brands in the US are comparable, but god knows which of today’s 7000 bean-related threads it was in!
I, for one, welcome our beany overlords
This is interesting and something I had always suspected. Now I want to know what UK baked beans taste like and if they don’t taste like shit lol.
Don’t look at me, I’m just here to promote “Barbie”.
Lol yeah but at least I see you on almost every post I look at commenting.
No, you’re breathtaking!
I feel like I am in the presence of greatness. Can’t wait for the movie.
Thanks, but I’m probably going to need some new material after “Barbie” comes out.
Am I doing something wrong, I just see the same posts over and over even when sorting differently?
Try sorting by Top: 6 Hours, that keeps things a little fresher. Also you could sort by New, but that can get overwhelming depending on the level of activity.
Hot and Active sorting kind of suck right now tbh. Try top>day or something.
Edit to elaborate: I believe active heavily weighs recent comments and it sort of creates a feedback loop where someone comments, putting the post to top of active, then others see it there and comment on it perpetuating the cycle.
The website now let’s you sort top 12h, 6h, and 1h too but no apps seem to have that implemented yet.
Oh and sort by All not Local to see communities from other instances that users on your instance have subscribed to.
Check lemmyverse.net too to look for communities no ones subscribed to where you are yet.
the liftoff app on android has sort by top 12/6/1hr, as of the latest update from yesterday or so. works really well!
Wefwef also has it
Oh great, that’s one of my preferred apps. Thanks for letting me know.
Try to do top 12hours instead, it’s where the middle ground is.
I remember when I first joined Reddit it was much the same, but as it got more crowded my front page started becoming fresh more frequently.
I actually prefer this way, it means that there are less bots and more genuine content.
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Just checking in on your 12h old post. Did you get it sorted?
Thanks for checking in, have been sorting by top 6/12 hours and have been seeing some more variety in posts :)
It seems like with no algorithms, and a set of common sense guidelines that Federated instances have, we can all learn to understand and respect each other better. Breaking free of billionaire, fossil fuel mafia and hostile anti-democracy government controlled manipulation is what freedom is all about. I love it.
I honestly doubted I’d be able to stay away from reddit. I’ve tried many times before. I’ve deleted 5 major accounts since 2012.
But Lemmy seems to have been the nicotine patch I’ve needed. Haven’t been on Reddit outside google searching for info, which isn’t going away for me personally.
Only thing I actually miss is baseball and my team sub.
You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking they’ll find a community ready to welcome them
I’ve tried to do this but can’t seem to find a clear and concise guide. From what I read, only admins can create communities?
It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don’t. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.
This kind of confusion is why Lemmy will not be even a minor successor to Reddit IMHO. It’s fun though, and I’m glad it exists.
It’s unlikely to topple Reddit regardless, but so long as the scalability proves functional enough to support recommending lemmy.world to non tech-savvy newbies I don’t see this particular issue becoming problematic. Most of the larger recommended instances have open community creation anyway. I guess BeeHaw doesn’t but people aren’t really recommending it to newbies either.
Ah I didn’t realise you had to be an admin. Maybe reply to the below thread with a proposal for your community
Check out our baseball community’s sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching !baseball@fanaticus.social (and give it a minute if someone on your instance hasn’t already found us).
Fanaticus is a sports-only instance. We’ve ported over a game bot and have created communities for all the major sports teams. If you’re interested in moderating one of the communities, just ask!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !baseball@fanaticus.social
Wow this is me exactly. Finding Lemmy to be a breath of fresh air, but the main thing I’m fiending for is my Mariners community. Really hoping mariners@fanaticus.social gets some traction. I was a Sync for Android user and the developer is shifting to Lemmy and that is exciting. I still have not caved and downloaded the Reddit app, so that’s a win.
Who’s your team? Check out the sidebar on !baseball@fanaticus.social Fanaticus is a sports-only instance which helps keep us insulated from any defederation drama. We’ve got all the communities set up just waiting for our fellow fans to join us! We also have game bots and are actively developing new features.
If you’re interesting in modding your team’s community, just post in there asking. The community may seem bare right now but why a little TLC you can make it a home for your favorite team.
I joined here on June 12th and there were practically no posts or communities. Now I can’t keep track of it all. I’m so glad to be here and finally be part of this social movement - I’ve been tracking the Fediverse/Mastodon/Friendica/GNU Social/Diaspora/etc for a VERY long time, but the format of those networks has never been interesting to me. I want to talk about topics, not people.
I’m new here, from Reddit, and can honestly say thank you so much and it’s been a warm welcome. I’m getting the hang of Lemmy slowly but surely. The community has been helpful to new members and chill as hell. I’m glad to be here as Lemmy grows!
Welcome! ❤️
I’m only here because of you. This goes both ways.
Lemmy feels like how reddit felt in 2010
That’s a rare thing these days
💯❤️
Except the fascists. Fuck the fascists, they can go back to the holes they crawled out of.
I’d rather not fuck the fascists. Might inadvertently breed more future fascists.
good morning
Fuck the fascists? For sure. I fucking hate all those motherfuckers.
Except that, just about the worst thing of all about fascism is the way that it goes out of its way to dehumanize other people, just so as to make it easier to hate them.
So how about, “Fuck fascism” then? I could get behind that. But maybe still try to save some small modicum of love, as well, for all the poor souls who’ve been weak or gullible enough to have fallen for it?
Maybe give them one more chance to come out of their holes, if they’re brave enough? When I can, I always try give them one more chance to do that. In any small way whatsoever.
I don’t mean to purposefully give them “one more chance” to troll, or spew their rhetoric, or stoke hate – even though we all know that’s what they’ll do again, 99 times out of 100.
I don’t mean supporting some reddit echo chamber I am ideologically opposed to just to feed my own ego and provide them all fodder for more echo-chamber bullying and false validation. I mean using a forum for good-faith communication among honest strangers. The way forums have always been intended to be used (but never always have) since the beginning of the internet 30 years ago.
I just mean that, when thinking of another person instead of another person’s ideology, I always want to give them just one more chance to listen to me, and one more chance to talk to me, as a fellow person
One more chance to hear another point of view, one more chance to come to understand and communicate and cooperate from a place of their own standing, as opposed to just snapping back defensively from the place that their fascism has conditioned them to react from.
One more one-in-a-hundred chance that my purposeful efforts to humanize my adversary may somehow lead him to humanize me as well.
Fuck fascism, for sure. But I try not to hate a person for their good intentions. It’s said the road to hell is paved with them, but they’re still usually a whole lot more respectable than bad intentions.
Inspire radical empathy
